Google has updated its favicon search developer documentation to remove the Favicon user agent section and also to clarify that you need to allow Googlebot and Googlebot-Image user agents for ...

Google posted "February 23: Removed the hosting location requirement from the favicon documentation; you don't need to host the favicon in the same domain in order to be eligible for a favicon in ...

Google supports the following rel attribute values for specifying a favicon; use whichever one fits your use case: icon The icon that represents your site, as defined in the HTML standard.

What: Updated the favicon guidelines to state that favicons must have a 1:1 aspect ratio and be at least 8x8px in size, with a strong recommendation for using a higher resolution favicon of at ...

Google is officially rolling out the new site name and favicon design, along with the new sponsored ad label, in the mobile search results. Yes, this is something Google has been testing and we ...